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Items with the tag:

middle east

Cover of Facts and Figures About the Middle East
Chil­dren’s
Facts and Fig­ures About the Mid­dle East
Lisa McCoy
Cover of Profiles in Terror: The Guide to Middle East Terrorist Organizations
Non­fic­tion
Pro­files in Ter­ror: The Guide to Mid­dle East Ter­ror­ist Organizations
Aaron Mannes
Essay

A Hid­den History

Ear­li­er this week Mat­ti Fried­man, a reporter in Jerusalem for the Times of Israel, and author of The Alep­po Codex, wrote about the codex vs. the Kin­dle. He…
Mat­ti Friedman
July 18, 2012
Cover of The Making of the Middle East
Chil­dren’s
The Mak­ing of the Mid­dle East
David Downing
Cover of The State of the Middle East: An Atlas of Conflict and Resolution
Non­fic­tion
The State of the Mid­dle East: An Atlas of Con­flict and Resolution
Dan Smith
Cover of To Be An Arab in Israel
Non­fic­tion
To Be An Arab in Israel
Laurence Louer
Cover of Lost Years: Bush, Sharon and Failure in the Middle East
Non­fic­tion
Lost Years: Bush, Sharon and Fail­ure in the Mid­dle East
Mark Matthews
Cover of Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined
Non­fic­tion
Jews and Mus­lims in the Arab World: Haunt­ed by Pasts Real and Imagined
Jacob Lassner and S. Ilan Troen
Cover of Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad
Non­fic­tion
Farewell, Baby­lon: Com­ing of Age in Jew­ish Baghdad
Naim Kattan; Sheila Fischman, trans.
Cover of Innocent Abroad: An Intimate History of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East
Non­fic­tion
Inno­cent Abroad: An Inti­mate His­to­ry of Amer­i­can Peace Diplo­ma­cy in the Mid­dle East
Martin Indyk
Cover of Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine
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Hamas vs. Fatah: The Strug­gle for Palestine
Jonathan Schanz­er
Cover of The Palestinian National Authority
Non­fic­tion
The Pales­tin­ian Nation­al Authority
John C. Hall, Adam Woog, Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.
Cover of A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East
Non­fic­tion
A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strat­e­gy for Amer­i­ca in the Mid­dle East
Kenneth M. Pollack
Cover of Creation of the Modern Middle East: Israel
Chil­dren’s
Cre­ation of the Mod­ern Mid­dle East: Israel
Louise Chipley Slavicek; Arthur Goldschmidt Jr., ed.
Cover of Cartoons and Extremism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and Western Media
Non­fic­tion
Car­toons and Extrem­ism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and West­ern Media
Joel Kotek
Cover of The Handbook of the Middle East, rev. ed.
Non­fic­tion
The Hand­book of the Mid­dle East, rev. ed.
Michael B. Kort
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